Calling cached data (in service layer) from an ASP.NET MVC View - what other alternative do we have?

We are adding tooltips to our ASP.NET MVC product, and we are getting the text from our database (technically, from a cached copy of the data). To do so, we created an Html Helper method:

<%=Html.Tooltip(Model.GetTooltipText(Tooltips.ClientPage.StartDateId))%>

The GetTooltipText method is in our BaseV开发者_C百科iewModel, and simply uses the passed in Id to fetch the tooltip from cache.

Would this be considered a bad design? What other alternatives would we have?

Thanks!

Its probably a better idea to grab all the Tooltip's in one hit and put them in some sort of strongly-typed collection (perhaps a Dictionary<id,string>), cache all of that in your service layer.

Then you could put this in a ViewModel and pass it through to your strongly-typed view.

In your View you could simply access that strongly-typed collected via the Model based on the unique key?

I.e.

<%: Model.Tooltips[SomeDateId] %>